Questions about the principles of the object-oriented programming paradigm.

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Extracting an object diagram to a class diagram

Below, is the mapping of class diagram to object diagram correct? i cant seem to find a useful tutorial on object diagrams anywhere! Thanks in advance!
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How to represent OOP concepts in algorithms in a standard way?

I have usually been using the Cormen algorithm format to teach some introductory courses in Programming. I mean something like this: ...
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Datatypes in Java. Is string same a character? [closed]

Is string containing a single character same As char?? This is a book question I need to answer. Pls help
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Temporal logic for interface invariants

I am looking for some sort of temporal logic for expressing invariants in interfaces. Since interfaces do not specify data representation, the invariants must rely solely on the publicly available ...
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Advice on Object-Oriented programming [closed]

I have been programming for the past two months for the first time, and I'm getting a hang of it, I usually solve problems and am able to write code up to certain extent... however, I have ...
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Inheritance, and dynamic access to members/attributes and methods in Java-like languages

I have a question about inheritance in Java-like OO programming languages. It came up in my compiler class, when I explained how to compile methods and their invocation. I was using Java as example ...
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Definition of the state of an object in OOP

I need a concise definition of the "state of an object" in object-oriented programming (for a paper). For about half of a day I searched for a paper that I can cite on this topic, but I couldn't find ...
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Object-based distributed Operating systems [closed]

Can any one explain how object-based technology used in distributed operating systems? Also can any one suggest any learning resources (links, slideshows, e-books etc) to learn about Amoeba OS?
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Difference between multimethods and overloading

Context I've been programming in java for a few years now. And atm i'm learning something totally different: Clojure. There the expression problem can be solved by using multimethods whereas in java ...
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Is there any research to indicate programmers are/are not moving to a hybrid of functional and object-oriented?

I am converting the OCaml Format module which does I/O and maintains state in a record with mutable values. As such it is a good candidate for me to convert to pure F#, pure C# and a hybrid. Since ...
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Dynamic changes to classes or context activation — how to treat existing objects in a consistent way?

I am looking for references and papers on the following topic. In general, some programming languages allow dynamic changes to classes. As an example, a new instance variable ‘weight’ can be added ...
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Why classes implicitly derive from only the Object Class?

I do not have any argument opposing why we need only a single universal class. However why not we have two universal classes, say an Object and an AntiObject Class. In nature and in science we find ...
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Can bottom-up architectures be effectively programmed in top-down paradigms?

The subsumption architecture, proposed by Rodney Brooks in 1986, is a "bottom-up" approach, in which robots are designed using simple hierarchical models. These models build upon and subsume the ...